Tag Archives: bot
It’s a Bot World. We Just Live in It
Welcome to the next entry in my series of COVID-19 I-am-stuck-at-home-for-who-knows-how-long videos. So far, I’ve tackled Bot Building Basics with Google Dialogflow and Can You Really Build That With Breeze. Today, I recorded another of my popular presentations, It’s a Bot World. We Just Live in It. This was originally a breakout session at Engage […]
The Tao of the Ethical Bot
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle I am the third born in my family. My oldest brother, Richard, is nine years older than me and my brother Bob was born six years and one month ahead of me. As children, we shared the same bedroom and by osmosis […]
Tao, Zen, and Tomorrow
Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy You may have already noticed, but SIP Adventures has a new name – Tao, Zen, and Tomorrow. I began this blog by writing just about everything I knew about SIP, […]
Bot Building Basics with Google Dialogflow
Due to a number of requests, I recorded the Bot Building Basics presentation I recently gave at Avaya Engage 2020. It’s a lot more fun speaking before a live audience, but this is a close-enough reenactment. I guarantee that if you watch the video in its entirety, you will be able to create your own […]
Building Bots with Natural Language Processing
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. — Nelson Mandela I would venture to guess that most people had their first encounter with natural language processing (NLP) when Apple added Siri to the […]
The Prokop Hospital Virtual Agent
To know me in real life is to know that I have a hard time sitting still. If I see a dirty dish in the sink, I wash it. If my lawn needs mowing, I’m out there with the mower. My idea of relaxation is a 40-mile bike ride. This bleeds into my programming life […]
Three Questions with Andrew and Andrew (A Video Conversation)
I will just come out and say it. I hate seeing myself on video. Call it vanity or call it insecurity, but I always think I look dorky. So, it was with great trepidation that I accepted Andrew Maher’s invitation to virtually sit with him for three questions. However, after all the dust settled and […]
IBM and Avaya and Cisco, Oh My!
On a recent episode of the public radio program, Marketplace, the host, Kai Ryssdal, asked his guest to describe her job in five words or less. I can’t remember what her response was, but it made me think about what mine might be. My first reaction was something akin to “Waiting until retirement day,” but […]
Tao, Zen, and Tomorrow 